Iterable

Director, Engineering – Nova

Iterable

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Austin • California • Colorado • United States

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Salary

💰 $204,000 - $319,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Lead the Nova engineering organization across AI application development ML systems
  • Set technical direction for AI-powered product capabilities and shared AI infrastructure
  • Drive end-to-end delivery from research and experimentation through productionization and scale
  • Establish reusable platforms, patterns, and foundations that enable other product teams to build AI features efficiently
  • Partner with engineering leaders across the company to support adoption of AI capabilities
  • Ensure high standards for system design, reliability, cost discipline, and operational excellence
  • Collaborate closely with Product to shape roadmap, evaluate feasibility, and sequence investments
  • Balance innovation with platform stability and long-term maintainability
  • Hire, manage, and develop Engineering Managers and senior ICs
  • Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and technical rigor

Requirements

  • 10+ years of engineering experience, including significant experience leading managers and scaling multidisciplinary teams.
  • Proven track record of building and operating production AI/ML systems at scale with a focus on Enterprise-Grade reliability.
  • Experience building and operating production AI / ML systems at scale
  • Deep understanding of Context Engineering, including RAG, retrieval-ranking, and evaluation frameworks for grounding AI agents in high-fidelity data.
  • Experience defining technical strategy across multiple teams
  • Experience translating emerging AI capabilities into practical, customer-facing agentic workflows that drive measurable business outcomes (Lift/ROI).
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity with a Bias for Action, making crisp decisions to keep the product roadmap fluid in a fast-moving AI landscape and drive alignment across engineering, product, and data
  • Experience operating in a multi-team SaaS environment
  • Strong communication skills and ability to influence senior stakeholders
Benefits
  • Paid parental leave
  • Competitive salaries, meaningful equity, & 401(k) plan
  • Medical, dental, vision, & life insurance
  • Balance Days (additional paid holidays)
  • Fertility & Adoption Assistance
  • Paid Sabbatical
  • Flexible PTO
  • Monthly Employee Wellness allowance
  • Monthly Professional Development allowance
  • Pre-tax commuter benefits
  • Complete laptop workstation
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
AI application developmentML systemsproduction AI/ML systemsContext Engineeringretrieval-rankingevaluation frameworkstechnical strategycustomer-facing workflowsSaaS environmentoperational excellence
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationinfluencedecision-makingcollaborationownershipaccountabilitytechnical rigornavigating ambiguitybias for action